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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology begins House_n, an ambitious three-year project to reinvent the most important building type. There's no place like home. Most people understand this quaint homily as [...]

Rooftop additions present idiosyncratic design and engineering challenges: The condition of the existing structure - whether it has adequately maintained its original load capacity and is capable of carrying additional [...]

Ages: Todd Fouser, 35; Chris Otterbine, 30; Reuben Jorsling, 34 (from left to right) Education: Fouser: University of Kansas; Otterbine: Cooper Union; Jorsling: Cooper Union Current positions: Principals, design and [...]

Exotic butterflies thrive in New York City in the dead of winter. Butterflies are free at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, so to speak. In [...]

Every student of 20th-century architecture has studied the masterpieces of Louis I. Kahn: the Kimbell Art Museum, Phillips Exeter Academy library, Yale Center for British Art and Studies, Salk Institute [...]

Christopher Wren's Royal Observatory (1675) crests an expansive, sloping park in the village of Greenwich, around a River Thames bend in southeast London. Down the street, Britain's last clipper ship, [...]

Renzo Plano's double-shelled structures recall ancient forms and ensure cultural continuity. Of the many architectural components that make up the Renzo Piano Building Workshop's recently completed Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center […]

The most vulnerable part of a building is often its glazing. In recent years, this vulnerability has contributed to personal injury and property damage associated with numerous natural and man-made [...]

They consume one-third of their energy from fossil fuels. They use two-thirds of the electricity consumed in the U.S. and, therefore, account for two-thirds of carbon dioxide emissions. They consume [...]

At the 1996 Jerusalem Seminar, architectural historian Kenneth Frampton brought distinguished architects and critics together to debate the impact of technology on topography, place, and culture. 'Despite the undeniable progress [...]

Guy Nordenson talks about his work, tradition, collaboration, and the art of structural design. 'Dare to be naive.' Those are the words architect, visionary, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller spoke [...]

computer power gave NBBJ the stamina to deliver the new reebok headquarters in record time. No one will mistake the new Reebok World Headquarters in Canton, Massachusetts, for one of [...]

'Luxury prefab' is no longer an oxymoron. Swedish engineers Hakan and Annika Qlsson looked at the skyline of London, their adopted home, and saw a missed opportunity for development above [...]

British architect John Pawson is now in the kitchen business. The minimalist's minimalist is best known in the United States for the stark Calvin Klein flagship store (1995) in Manhattan, [...]

A new sun machine helps British architects design with natural light. Technology England is famous for its clammy, overcast weather. But the sun shines in at least one location. Last [...]

Nina Rappaport talks with Jacques Herzoc about his firm's transformation of an abandoned London power station into the Tate Modern, while Sara Hart gets under the building's seamless surfaces. The [...]

SOM gives an airplane hangar surprising elegance. Sara Hart reports on what makes it fly. Technology When the president of Korean Airlines KAL peers from the window of his executive [...]

Sara Hart reports on the world's largest terrarium, sprouting in the English countryside. Green From a distance, the giant pods snaking their way across a crater in England's Cornish countryside [...]

Philippe Starck, the brand-name king of 1990s commercial design, is kicking off the millennium with a residential venture called YOO. Starck founded the London-based property company with John Hitchcox, the [...]

New materials are sometimes just old ones made better. Sara Hart reports on British industrial designer Tom Barker's innovative building products for two Millennium Dome exhibitions. Technology On January 1, [...]

Philippe Starck has seen the light: His design for Ian Schrager's new St. Martins Lane Hotel in London enriches his minimalism with illumination. The Light Bar (above left) glows purple, [...]

Photographer Roland Horn records the rise of Helmut Jahn's dramatic Forum at the Sony Center in Berlin. It's been described as a bicycle wheel, a tipped teepee, an umbrella with [...]

Engineers Learn What Could Happen Here Most of the 2,100 fatalities and thousands of injuries resulting from the massive 7.6-magnitude earthquake that struck central Taiwan on September 21 can be [...]

NBBJ has always positioned itself as a service-oriented operation - a strategy that helped it become one of the largest architectural firms in the U.S. But in a bid to [...]

A small portion of The Presidio, San Francisco's lush 1,480-acre national park by the bay - and, for 223 years, home to the various military enterprises of Spain, Mexico, and [...]

The road to the new British Library is paved with good intentions. Indeed, these intentions motivated the ambitious plan to relocate and expand one of the world's finest book and [...]

Nine years after critics heralded Frank Gehry's manufacturing and distribution plant for Herman Miller as a masterpiece, two major components of the Rocklin, California, complex (right) are being razed and [...]